Human rights

Amazonian activist Nemonte Nenquimo on a life under threat and people’s ignorance to the rainforest
Nemonte Nenquimo

Amazonian activist Nemonte Nenquimo on a life under threat and people’s ignorance to the rainforest

We Will Not Be Saved by Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson is a plea for understanding and communication

Healthcare for trans youth is a human right – it should matter to us all
Chiara Capraro

Healthcare for trans youth is a human right – it should matter to us all

Following the Cass Review into trans healthcare for children and young people, Amnesty International UK’s gender justice director Chiara Capraro writes about why this is a human rights issue

My family faced hell on earth in Gaza. Leaving was their only option for survival
Israel-Gaza war

My family faced hell on earth in Gaza. Leaving was their only option for survival

Roba, who has lived in the UK for nine years, shares her family’s story of facing the horrors of war in Gaza. She backs campaigners’ calls for a Ukraine-style visa scheme for Palestinians with family in the UK

DWP faces ‘outrage’ and ‘paranoia’ if it continues plans to ‘spy’ on bank accounts
Department for Work and Pensions

DWP faces ‘outrage’ and ‘paranoia’ if it continues plans to ‘spy’ on bank accounts

Tens of thousand sign petition against DWP plan to snoop on benefit claimants’ bank accounts
Department for Work and Pensions

Tens of thousand sign petition against DWP plan to snoop on benefit claimants’ bank accounts

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‘I urinated myself in the opticians’: UK’s public toilet crisis makes disabled people feel like ‘prisoners’
Public toilets

‘I urinated myself in the opticians’: UK’s public toilet crisis makes disabled people feel like ‘prisoners’

Britain becoming more liberal-minded – but less tolerant of trans people, survey finds
Transgender rights

Britain becoming more liberal-minded – but less tolerant of trans people, survey finds

Brassic FM: How 90s rave crackdowns foreshadowed attacks on our right to protest
opinion

Brassic FM: How 90s rave crackdowns foreshadowed attacks on our right to protest

Pride marches, football matches, and vigils: The ordinary activities that could get caught up in the government’s new slow walking crackdown
Public Order Act

Pride marches, football matches, and vigils: The ordinary activities that could get caught up in the government’s new slow walking crackdown

Voter ID: Everything you need to know about how to vote in May’s elections, and the controversies
Politics

Voter ID: Everything you need to know about how to vote in May’s elections, and the controversies

A disabled woman has been left without a toilet or shower for months by her healthcare provider
Disability

A disabled woman has been left without a toilet or shower for months by her healthcare provider

The government’s anti-protest bill is back. Here’s what you might not know about it
Public Order Bill

The government’s anti-protest bill is back. Here’s what you might not know about it

Exclusive: Controversial new laws forced through to restrict noisy protests haven’t been used by police
Protest

Exclusive: Controversial new laws forced through to restrict noisy protests haven’t been used by police

Here’s what people in Dover really think about UK immigration
Immigration

Here’s what people in Dover really think about UK immigration

Essential voices of protest must not be compromised
Paul McNamee

Essential voices of protest must not be compromised

Homeless people are being ‘disproportionately criminalised’ by anti-social behaviour laws
Rough sleeping

Homeless people are being ‘disproportionately criminalised’ by anti-social behaviour laws

Why are anti-monarchy protesters being arrested after the Queen’s death?
Protest

Why are anti-monarchy protesters being arrested after the Queen’s death?

Rwanda scheme protesters fear treatment of refugees will worsen under Liz Truss
Activism

Rwanda scheme protesters fear treatment of refugees will worsen under Liz Truss

Met Police banned a man from Shoreditch ‘after he filmed a stop and search’
Met Police

Met Police banned a man from Shoreditch ‘after he filmed a stop and search’

Raja Shehadeh: We weren’t close in life, but in researching my father I finally understand him
Palestine

Raja Shehadeh: We weren’t close in life, but in researching my father I finally understand him

Boris Johnson leaves with ‘trust in politics at an all time low’, say campaigners
Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson leaves with ‘trust in politics at an all time low’, say campaigners

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Public Order Bill: Linking arms at a protest could mean a year in prison under proposed laws, warn MPs
Right to protest

Public Order Bill: Linking arms at a protest could mean a year in prison under proposed laws, warn MPs

Rwanda deportations: What is the European Court of Human Rights, and why did it stop the UK flight from taking off?
Rwanda policy

Rwanda deportations: What is the European Court of Human Rights, and why did it stop the UK flight from taking off?

Nearly 1 in 3 worried they could be homeless or sofa-surfing in the next 5 years
Housing crisis

Nearly 1 in 3 worried they could be homeless or sofa-surfing in the next 5 years

Police forced to scrap order that banned a homeless man from carrying a cup
Homelessness

Police forced to scrap order that banned a homeless man from carrying a cup